#improvising

While you're improvising, you may come up with something which will break him up. As soon as that smile comes out, you know that, hey, we're having fun. ↗

— Shelley Berman

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My solo music - I get up onstage, I improvise and it's my improvisation. When I get up onstage with Fred Frith and Mike Patton, then we're improvising together. Then it's not my music; it's our music. ↗

— John Zorn

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We're improvising a lot of this, which amazes people. ↗

— Tom Bergeron

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I was improvising before I was reading music. I was just trying to play things on the clarinet by ear. I think my ear is one of my greatest assets. ↗

— Pete Fountain

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There was one thing Beethoven didn't do. When one of his string quartets was played, you can believe the second violin wasn't improvising. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

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I started improvising the Cliff character, based on someone I grew up with. ↗

— John Ratzenberger

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When I worked with Robin Williams, now there is improv! He is just as funny as you think he is. We did at least five or six takes of every scene, improvising every scene differently. He was a riot. ↗

— Stephen Root

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You're just sort of searching for this "thing" and sometimes you get it and sometimes you don't. All music is imperfect, but in jazz since you're improvising, at least the way I play, I'm trying to follow my train of thought in a solo. ↗

— John Abercrombie

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Even if you're improvising, the fact that beforehand you know certain things will work helps you make those improvisations successful. It really helps to have a certain amount of knowledge about musical structure. ↗

— John Cale

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No, improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you're doing. ↗

— Christopher Walken

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